Word: fines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weekday last week the House dropped its legislative labors to hold its first group memorial service for the ten Representatives and one Senator who died within the Congressional year. Such services used to be held on Sundays and fine occasions for flowery oratory they were-only nobody came...
...Lord Hugh" is a name with which to conjure down the very angels of Morality. For 30 years this sombre yet brilliant High Churchman has been what Britons call a "pillar of reform." During the War he showed the fine, tempered metal of the Cecils by learning to fly and how to shoot down the enemy. Not for nothing was his great ancestor, the First Earl of Salisbury (circa 1565-1612), the strongest and wisest counselor of Elizabeth, the Virgin Queen. Last week with every blue drop of his Cecil blood a-boiling, Lord Hugh rose to confront and confound...
...left town. Last fortnight the same company gave performances in Chicago. After the Rheingold, the first in Chicago for more than a decade, Chicago seemed unanimously pleased. Critic Maurice Rosenfeld of the Chicago Daily News wrote: "The company began its two weeks' season . . . with great artistic success, with fine stage settings and management, and with a roster of Wagner singers which is far above the usual cast...
Canada's mushing season continued, at Quebec. Leonard Sepalla, oldtime musher from Nome, Alaska, loudly exhorted his fine-bred Siberian huskies in the annual three-day Eastern International Sled Dog Derby and finished 17 minutes ahead of Frank Dupuis, a St. Lawrence River Lighthouse keeper with a team of snapping mongrels. Behind Dupuis came Emil St. Goddard of Manitoba...
...nothing of its own quite like Chevalier. He effervesces songs and, with fleeting pantomime, gives them the quality of fine etchings slightly caricatured. Having risen from the streets of Paris he has the wistfulness of their shadows. The Paris music-halls have given him a touch of rowdiness. The War, in which he was wounded and captured, left him with unbridled spontaneity...